Changes

At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student innovation and entrepreneurship has been the foundation for our new Lubar Entrepreneurship Center. Opening in Spring 2019, the state-of-the-art entrepreneurship center will be in a 24,000 sq. ft. facility providing Innovation Labs, Makerspaces, Touchdown, and Launch Spaces. Spanning over multiple education disciplines, the center will create a focal point for entrepreneurship education on the UWM campus. 

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

<span style="font-size:small"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6606fdbc-37f1-713d-a1b9-9e507459670e"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, faculty are urged to forge partnerships with local businesses to collaborate on research projects and develop new technologies. The UWM Research Foundation is an auxiliary resource for the university and the catalyst on campus for faculty innovation with the goal to provide opportunities for faculty and staff to gain venture funding, develop intellectual property, form a business unit, and truly go out and create a business. The UWM Research Foundation has created a set of programs designed to bridge the gap between research and commercialization. These programs target a range of activities from early discovery through commercialization. The Research Fellows Program provides grants to graduate students over and above other types of support; these "kicker grants" help UWM faculty in key areas to attract and retain the best and brightest students who play a critical role in their research programs. The Catalyst Grant Program provides seed funding to research projects with high potential for return on investment - through commercialization or ability to attract funding from other sources. The objective with faculty entrepreneurs is also to promote corporate partnerships and startup companies in hopes that they can commercialize ideas as they reach later stages of maturity. Underlying all of these activities is the management of intellectual property - which including assessing ideas, protecting intellectual property through patents and copyrights as well as licensing activities.</span></span></span>

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'''Faculty Leadership Circle''':

<span style="font-size:small"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9f0baffb-36f5-8362-e964-5d396d18fd0e"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Key stakeholders on campus for innovation and entrepreneurship speak about their support for the ecosystem. &nbsp;These stakeholders include Pathways members Ilya Avdeev and Brian Thompson as well as the UWM Chancellor Mark Mone, and business school dean Kanti Prasad. &nbsp;Their insights and discussions showcase entrepreneurial activity on campus, competitions, new startups, and building activities for the brand new entrepreneurship center.</span></span></span>

= Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration =